Cheng Hsu (Ph.D.)

Dr.
Cheng Hsu is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (formerly
Decision Science and Engineering Systems) and Professor of Information
Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12180-3590. He
earned Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences (with a minor in Computer
Science) and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering both from Ohio
State University, and BS in Industrial Engineering from Tunghai
University, Taiwan. He served on Rensselaer's Faculty Council, Faculty
Senate, and various other academic committees at the school and
institute levels (including the Institute-wide BS-IT and MS-IT
curricula committees). He has been a keynote speaker to a number of
international meetings in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Italy, and
Canada, as well as in the US.

Dr.
Hsu is also currently engaging in research on sustainability design for
products and production systems, and design of home-based smart micro
grid systems for distributed energy supply. He is the originator of the
Metadatabase and Two-Stage Entity-Relationship Models, both of which give rise to the research section of this Web site, Enterprise Integration and Modeling. He has been a principal investigator of Rensselaer's
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing and Adaptive Integrated Manufacturing
programs, and a number of other government- and industry-sponsored
projects. The sponsors include companies such as Alcoa, Digital, GE,
GM, IBM, and Samsung Electronics, and government sources such as the
U.S. National Science Foundation, Army Research, New York State, and
NATO.

Dr.
Hsu teaches Multi-disciplinary Capstone Engineering Design, Discrete
Systems Simulation, Databases, e-Business engineering, and Information
Systems. His publications include seven books and edited volumes, and
over a hundred scholarly papers in a number of archival journals and
proceedings. He is a member of AIS, IEEE, INFORMS, and ASEE. He has
been serving on the editorial boards for several journals and
organizations, including, e.g., INFORMS Journal of Service Science and
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.